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Cigna Corp. announced late Monday it has a new 10-year agreement with Catamaran, a company that buys prescription drugs in bulk and provides technological advantages to manage drug inventories for the health insurer. The arrangement builds on an agreement that Catamaran had with Cigna's subsidiary, HealthSpring. At stake is the pharmacy benefits program for about 8 million Cigna customers who stand to benefit from savings as Catamaran negotiates behind the scenes with prescription drug companies. The customers are Cigna members who get prescriptions through home delivery, or at retail stores that have negotiated arrangements with the insurer. Cigna will continue to manage the...

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Cigna Corp. announced late Monday it has a new 10-year agreement with Catamaran, a company that buys prescription drugs in bulk and provides technological advantages to manage drug inventories for the health insurer.
The arrangement builds on an...

Can we talk about keno?I can't tell whether I'm just getting older and crankier or whether this is the most lowdown, sneaky, thief-in-the-night edition of the General Assembly I've ever seen.The Democrats who run the joint lost a seat this week in a...

Yale President Richard Levin sat for an interview with The Courant's editorial board in 1996, and talked about the university's potential as a research engine. As an example, he cited "a company called Alexion, which develops pharmaceuticals,"...

Cigna Corp. on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings that beat analysts' expectations, largey owing to a growing customer base.
Net income for the three months ending June 30 was $505 million, or $1.76 per share, compared with $380 million, or $1.31...

Meeting for the first time since regulations for the medical marijuana program were enacted, the state's six-member Board of Physicians began working out the details of an entirely new system Wednesday.
Without the guidance of the U.S. Federal Drug...

A bill that would provide protection to young children against toxic chemicals — both before and after birth — was unfortunately bottled up in the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee last week but should be revived by amendment before this...

Many people believe vaccinations are relegated to childhood, but the viruses and bacteria that cause severe illness in youth can also infect adults. In fact, certain common infectious diseases, like chickenpox or flu, are more aggressive in adulthood....

Do you remember the last time your blood pressure was checked and what the numbers were? While knowing your blood pressure numbers is important, it’s also good to know what those numbers mean and if you should take action to help lower them.
High blood...

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Women carry with us, at all times, everything we might need to start life in a new state. Our purses contain the all the merchandise found in a Quickie Mart or a...

"We're not in Kansas anymore," said the smirking congressman from Texas, pleased with his own witlessness.
Rep. Joe Barton, a Republican, was addressing Kathleen Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, now secretary of health and human services,...

It struck me as presumptuous and self-righteous that columnist Bill O'Reilly blasted the San Francisco Giants earlier this month for allowing Barry Bonds to return as a hitting coach for a week.
In O'Reilly's view, Bonds is an unrepentant cheater who...

Flu vaccines work. They keep children out of hospitals.
Parents who resist vaccinating their children should read a report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showed vaccinations reduced hospitalizations. (The report is at...

The refusal of the nut case Republicans to tax the wealthy at a higher rate is absurd. The support that the tea party and other self-hating conservative herds of sheep give the GOP is even MORE absurd. In essence, tea party Republicans think they can...

You get a bunch of baby boomers together and inevitably the conversation turns to aches and pains.This, of course, is a topic to which everyone can relate. The only baby boomers who don't have something to moan and groan about at this stage are the ones...

Starting on Oct. 1, medical marijuana will be legal in Connecticut. Although our state's medical marijuana law was carefully designed to minimize the risk of federal invention, the legal reality is that the federal government can still prosecute anyone...